Monday, June 22, 2015

Where to begin with Climate Justice?

Click here to access article by Joanna Cabello from Degrowth in action
Climate justice is a relatively new term. ...it is important here to expand upon the different understandings of, and some of the debates surrounding, the term ‘climate justice’....

Although it has a much longer history that is difficult to trace, the term was popularised by the formation of the ‘Climate Justice Now!’ network in Bali during the COP-14 UN Climate negotiations in 2007. In the build up to the COP-15 in Copenhagen the term became a mobilizing platform across Europe as the ‘Climate Justice Action’ (CJA) network opposed the COP
[Conference of the Parties] as an unjust set of negotiations interested in expanding capitalism rather than in addressing the global climate crises.